Dear Readers,
We have $122,382 to go, and we need your help to get to the finish line by Dec. 31.
Two donors, The Sustainable Future Fund of the Vermont Community Foundation and the Gay and Lesbian Fund of Vermont believe strongly in our mission to bring you the best investigative reporting in Vermont.
They support us because they know that reliable reporting leads to better government, stronger policy and more equitable communities for Vermont. Because they believe in our work so strongly, our friends at these two funds have volunteered to match $15,000 in gifts that come in this week, dollar-for-dollar.
Giving now means that you can double your gift to VTDigger.
If you appreciate our daily reporting on politics, the environment, health care, education and business, and our coverage of local communities in Southern Vermont and Chittenden County, we hope you’ll give today.
Because of your support, we have been able to stay on the Jay Peak Resort fraud case, we have pursued allegations of embezzlement in Coventry and we exposed how the state allowed ChemFab to pollute the air with chemicals that now contaminate the water supply in Bennington County.
We are now releasing data visualizations that help you determine how students at your local public K-12 school are performing on state tests.
VTDigger.org was recently called out by The New York Times, the Columbia Journalism Review and the Economist as one of the strongest regional news sites in the nation.
See what they had to say about the work we are doing at VTDigger:
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In-depth reporting takes significant time and resources. VTDigger reporters and editors work hundreds of hours on investigative reports — hunting down interviews, reading hundreds of pages of public records, following up on sources and writing and re-writing to make sure they get the story exactly right.
All of this work is supported by you, our readers, and we are thankful that you are there to make this reporting possible.
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Anne Galloway
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